The Project Gutenberg E-text of Émile: or, Concerning Education
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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About this eBook
- Author
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
- Title
- Émile; Or, Concerning Education; Extracts
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- LB: Education: Theory and practice of education
- Subject
- Education
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 30433
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30433
- Release Date
- November 9, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Heath's Pedagogical Library—4 — ÉMILE:
- 2.OR, CONCERNING EDUCATION — BY — JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
- 3.EXTRACTS — CONTAINING THE PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS OF PEDAGOGY FOUND IN THE FIRST THREE BOOKS; WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY — JULES STEEG, DÉPUTÉ, PARIS, FRANCE — TRANSLATED BY — ELEANOR WORTHINGTON — FORMERLY OF THE COOK COUNTY (ILL.) NORMAL SCHOOL — D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS BOSTON — NEW YORK — CHICAGO — TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. — INTRODUCTION.
- 4.BOOK FIRST. — GENERAL REMARKS. — The Object of Education. — The New-born Child. — The Earliest Education. — Maxims to Keep us True to Nature. — Language.
- 5.BOOK SECOND. — Avoid taking too many Precautions. — Childhood is to be Loved. — Neither Slaves nor Tyrants. — Reasoning should not begin too soon. — Well-Regulated Liberty. — Proceed Slowly. — The Idea of Property. — Falsehood. The Force of Example. — Negative or Temporizing Education. — Concerning the Memory. — On the Study of Words. — Physical Training. — Clothing. — Sleep. — Exercise of the Senses. — The Sense of Touch. — The Sense of Sight. — Drawing. — Geometry. — Hearing. — The Voice. — The Sense of Taste. — Result. The Pupil at the Age of Ten or Twelve.
- 6.BOOK THIRD. — The Age of Study. — The Incentive of Curiosity. — Things Rather than their Signs. — Imparting a Taste for Science. — The Juggler. — Experimental Physics. — Nothing to be Taken upon Authority. Learning from the Pupil's own Necessities. — Finding out the East. The Forest of Montmorency. — Robinson Crusoe. — Judging from Appearances. The Broken Stick. — Result. The Pupil at the Age of Fifteen.
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